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Thanks Teach,
Even with all the problems and hardships in life there
are lots of happy memories, but I just can't help thinking
that more could have been done for mum, can't help thinking
that I could have been stronger by insisting action when
the decision was made not to go ahead with the operation to
remove the tumor, and it worries me that maybe the decision
not to go ahead with the operation was made just because mum
is too old, because 82 just doesn't balance the books. I may be
completely wrong but just the thought of this being possible
and my mother dying because of this is sickening. It's wearing
me down a bit.
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January 2010
Thanks for you kind words Julie,
It's interesting how bad times like these bring people together so much closer. I was a child since the last time my mother and I were this close and spent so much time together. When you know you are losing someone you love and care about so much nothing else matters as much any more. I still have my usual responsibilities, work, kids, etc. but I have been able to spend a lot of quality time with mum over the last 5 weeks which for some reason was hard to achieve before. So as bad as things are there's always a little bit good that comes out of it.
Thanks again Julie,
Marek
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January 2010
about 5 weeks ago my mother (82) was to have an operation to remove a tumor from her stomach. Then, only a day before the operation the doctors decided that she was too weak to take the operation and cancelled it. We were told there was nothing they can do and informed us that she only had about a month or two to go. My mother is now in palliative care but very alert, good appetite, walking a little with the aid of a frame, absolutely sick of hospital, but with a bloated stomach and recently developed water weeping from her legs which have become very swollen. Looking back I can't help being cynical about them cancelling the operation, going ahead with the op could have atleast given her a chance of a normal life even if for a short time, even she would have preferred to take that chance rather then a slow painful death.
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